Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: detective, mystery, illus, SF, anthology
ISBN: 9780312944018
Google: vE44PwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0312944012
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: 1986-03-01T07:00:00+00:00

A Scarletin Study by Philip José Farmer (writing as Jonathan Swift Sommers III)

There’s no reason why the Sherlock Holmes spirit ought to be restricted to Homo sapiens. Anyone who has seen pictures in which Rin Tin Tin or Lassie were featured knows very well that dogs are more intelligent than humans beings. Well, then—

BEING A REPRINT FROM THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHANN H. WEISSTEIN, DR. MED., LATE OF THE AUTOBAHN PATROL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Foreword

Ralph von Wau Wau’s first case as a private investigator is not his most complicated or curious. It does, however, illustrate remarkably well my colleague’s peculiar talents. And it is, after all, his first case, and one should proceed chronologically in these chronicles. It is also the only case I know of in which not the painting but the painter was stolen. And it is, to me, most memorable because through it I met the woman who will always be for me the woman.

Consider this scene. Von Wau Wau; his enemy, Detective-Lieutenant Strasse; myself; and the lovely Lisa Scarletin, all standing before a large painting in a room in a Hamburg police station. Von Wau Wau studies the painting while we wonder if he’s right in his contention that it is not only a work of art but a map. Its canvas bears, among other things, the images of Sherlock Holmes in lederhosen, Sir Francis Bacon, a green horse, a mirror, Christ coming from the tomb, Tarzan, a waistcoat, the Wizard of Oz in a balloon, an ancient king of Babylon with a dietary problem, and a banana tree.

But let me begin at the beginning.

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